The pre-study Socio-economic perspectives on the conditions for art music in a changing world attempts to create a broad foundation for art music-related research. The primary aim has been to formulate interesting questions and indicate possible ways of finding answers, not to provide the answers. The two main areas of the study are Musical life and mass consumption and Art music and society. The two areas are not completely separate - they overlap and interact to some extent, but what is foreground and background differs depending on the perspective taken.